Wilson Reilly (August 8, 1811 – August 26, 1885) was aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Wilson Reilly was born inWaynesboro, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and was engaged as ahatter in Waynesboro andChambersburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Chambersburg. He served as prosecuting attorney ofFranklin County, Pennsylvania, from 1842 to 1845. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in1854.
Reilly was elected as a Democrat to theThirty-fifth Congress. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Thirty-fifth Congress. He was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1858. He became captain of the McClure Rifles and joined the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps at Camp Curtin inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania. He resumed the practice of law. In 1885, he and died in Chambersburg and was buried in Falling Spring Cemetery.
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